Adobe Premiere Pro CC - adding markers to video and sound

Brisn5757 · Feb 5, 2019

There are times when I need to move the audio track to a certain location on the video track or try and sync two audio tracks together.

If I add a marker then the marker appears at the top of the timeline screen and does not move if I were to move the video track.

Is there a way to put a marker on a video track and a marker on a sound track when using Premiere Pro CC? I could cut the video track and sound track to mark it but I don't want a lot of cuts on my tracks.

Brian

Ken______ · Feb 6, 2019

This describes how to add markers to clips, rather than the timeline.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/markers.html#id_55328

Brisn5757 · Feb 6, 2019

Ken______ said:
This describes how to add markers to clips, rather than the timeline.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/markers.html#id_55328

Thanks Ken.

It's something I should have learned about a while ago. It's strange that you need to create your own shortcut to put markers on a video clip, I guess Premiere have used most keys for their shortcuts.

I'm hoping that the you can put markers on the audio as will as the video on the timeline.

Brian

Ken______ · Feb 6, 2019

Yes, I thought it was a little odd too that you would need to create your own shortcut, but you can avoid that by double clicking on the clip in the timeline, which opens that clip in the source monitor. Then you can add the clip marker in the source monitor.

After writing the above, I found a post (https://forums.creativecow.net/docs...mid=3&postid=944710&univpostid=944710&pview=t) that said you can add a clip marker by selecting the clip in the timeline and then simply pressing the M key, which places a marker at the playhead position in the clip. So it looks like there is already a shortcut for setting a marker. If you don't have a clip selected in the timeline, pressing M creates a marker at the playhead position in the timeline rather than the clip. At least that is what it looks like to me. Hopefully you can verify that.

As it says in the forum post above, you have to enable "show clip markers" (wrench, show clip markers) in order to see the clip markers in the timeline. At first the clip markers for a pure audio track didn't appear in my timeline, but after a little fiddling they did show up.

Another thing I discovered is that you can get the clip markers and clip start/end points to snap to each other, as described here https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/clips-sequence.html#snap_clips .

Brisn5757 · Feb 6, 2019

Ken______ said:
Yes, I thought it was a little odd too that you would need to create your own shortcut, but you can avoid that by double clicking on the clip in the timeline, which opens that clip in the source monitor. Then you can add the clip marker in the source monitor.

After writing the above, I found a post (https://forums.creativecow.net/docs...mid=3&postid=944710&univpostid=944710&pview=t) that said you can add a clip marker by selecting the clip in the timeline and then simply pressing the M key, which places a marker at the playhead position in the clip. So it looks like there is already a shortcut for setting a marker. If you don't have a clip selected in the timeline, pressing M creates a marker at the playhead position in the timeline rather than the clip. At least that is what it looks like to me. Hopefully you can verify that.

As it says in the forum post above, you have to enable "show clip markers" (wrench, show clip markers) in order to see the clip markers in the timeline. At first the clip markers for a pure audio track didn't appear in my timeline, but after a little fiddling they did show up.

Another thing I discovered is that you can get the clip markers and clip start/end points to snap to each other, as described here https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/clips-sequence.html#snap_clips .

Thanks for the useful info Ken.

I tried the markers option for Premiere Pro and found that the marker for either the video track or audio track appears at the bottom of the track, I was expecting to see it at the top of the track.
In most cases to delete the marker on a video or audio track it needs to be done in the source window and the playhead needs to be on the marker before you right click to get the pop-up menu.

This is very useful information as it makes things a lot easier to line up when video editing.

Thanks again.

Brian

Ken______ · Feb 7, 2019

I'm happy I could help Brian.

You can also delete markers from the Markers view (windows, markers). The Markers view shows a list of the markers, including the clip markers if you select "show all clip markers in sequence" from the Markers menu. If you double click on a marker in the Markers view, a window pops up with many options, including the option to delete the selected marker.

uncle dunc · Feb 7, 2019

On my system, the W key is the "add marker" key. The Q key is the "go to previous marker" key, and the E key is the "go to next marker" key. It makes navigating the timeline much easier. I do find myself adding markers to the wrong clip sometimes. Whatever clip is highlighted - including the audio track - will receive the marker. If I want the marker to show up at the top of the timeline, I have to click in the black space just above the top video track to un-highlight a video clip and highlight the timeline.

Other useful keystrokes:

"Go to previous edit" - Z key.

"Go to next edit" - X key.

"Go back one frame" - 1 key

"Go back 2 frames" - 2 key

"Go forward 1 frame" - 3 key

"Go forward 2 frames" - 4 key

"Zoom in on timeline" - A key

"Zoom out on timeline - S key

"Go to IN point" - Shift - I (I wish this one didn't require the shift key, but I haven't gotten around to reassigning it to a key.)

With these keystrokes, you can fly through the timeline without ever touching the mouse.

Brisn5757 · Feb 7, 2019

uncle dunc said:
On my system, the W key is the "add marker" key. The Q key is the "go to previous marker" key, and the E key is the "go to next marker" key. It makes navigating the timeline much easier. I do find myself adding markers to the wrong clip sometimes. Whatever clip is highlighted - including the audio track - will receive the marker. If I want the marker to show up at the top of the timeline, I have to click in the black space just above the top video track to un-highlight a video clip and highlight the timeline.

Other useful keystrokes:

"Go to previous edit" - Z key.

"Go to next edit" - X key.

"Go back one frame" - 1 key

"Go back 2 frames" - 2 key

"Go forward 1 frame" - 3 key

"Go forward 2 frames" - 4 key

"Zoom in on timeline" - A key

"Zoom out on timeline - S key

"Go to IN point" - Shift - I (I wish this one didn't require the shift key, but I haven't gotten around to reassigning it to a key.)

With these keystrokes, you can fly through the timeline without ever touching the mouse.

Thanks dunc for the useful information.

As there is a lot to learn about Premiere Pro I have an exercise book for Premiere Pro that I keep adding notes to. Your information has been added.

Brian

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